linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data

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Date:	Sun, 22 May 2016 15:28:12 +0200
From:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data

Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com> writes:

> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com> writes:
>
>> On 05/18/2016 12:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:18:16AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> On 05/18/2016 11:01 AM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
>>>>> Thanks a million for reporting!
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.) Do you have lockdep enabled?
>>>>
>>>> Yup, nothing there.
>>>>
>>>>> 2.) Does this happen before or after userspace init has been spawned,
>>>>>     i.e. does the lockup happen at debugfs file creation time or
>>>>>     possibly at usage time?
>>>>
>>>> So I looked closer, and it seems to happen after starting syzkaller, which
>>>> as far as I know tries to open many different debugfs files.
>>>>
>>>> Is there debug code I can add it that'll help us figure out what's up?
>>> 
>>> Trying to figure out _which_ debugfs file is causing this would be
>>> great, if at all possible.  strace?
>>
>> What seems to be failing is syzkaller's attempt to mmap the coverage
>> debugfs file. So this isn't actually a kernel deadlock but syzkaller
>> misbehaves when that scenario happens.
>>
>> Either way, it only fails to mmap with that commit that I've pointed
>> out.
>
> That info is really helpful here: the proxy file_operations introduced by
> this commit doesn't have a ->mmap() defined, i.e. it is NULL from the
> VFS layer's point of view.
>
> The simple reason is that at the time I submitted this series, my
> Coccinelle script didn't find any debugfs user with a ->mmap()
> defined. Thus either that script was broken or things have changed in
> the meanwhile.

Thankfully, it's the latter :)
See the attached cocci script I used back then.

It now reports:

  ./drivers/staging/android/sync_debug.c:330:1-20: unsupported file_operations given to debugfs
  ./kernel/kcov.c:267:6-25: unsupported file_operations given to debugfs

The kcov's ->mmap() has been introduced by

  5c9a8750a640 ("kernel: add kcov code coverage")

dated from March this year.

Since that kcov debugfs file is never removed, it needs no protecting
proxy and thus, a replacement of debugfs_create_file() by
debugfs_create_file_unsafe() will do the trick here.

I'll send patches addressing the above two issues.

>>
>> 	th->cover_fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/kcov", O_RDWR);
>> 	if (th->cover_fd == -1)
>> 		fail("open of /sys/kernel/debug/kcov failed");
>> 	if (ioctl(th->cover_fd, KCOV_INIT_TRACE, kCoverSize))
>> 		fail("cover enable write failed");
>> 	th->cover_data = (uintptr_t*)mmap(NULL, kCoverSize * sizeof(th->cover_data[0]), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, th->cover_fd, 0);
>> 	if ((void*)th->cover_data == MAP_FAILED)
>> 		fail("cover mmap failed");
>>
>> And it's the mmap() that fails with -ENODEV.


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